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Little World Chinese Restaurant
Rating Details »
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- No
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- None
13 reviews for Little World Chinese Restaurant
This place is so good, I still miss the food here eventhough I'm in Los Angeles where there are authentic ethnic foods every block.
Authentic Southern Chinese food at good price. One of the best.
I don't understand what the fuss is all about. It was just so so.
Postives = inexpensive, quick service, and alot of food.
Negatives = noisy and food quality.
I went to this place with my friend Nathan on his suggestion that it was a great dive Chinese restaurant. A dive it is, and the food is good, too. Very inexpensive, and very entertaining.
When we walked in, one of the women simply pointed to a table and said "sit!" I busted out in laughter. When she came to take our order I asked a question and she either didn't understand me or didn't know I was talking to her, so Nathan answered me instead.
The food came out very quickly, and just after we finished our soup. The combos are super cheap for the mound of food they brought out.
The service isn't top notch, but with a place like this you can't really expect 5-star service. I loved their display case that had several of what looked like cooked ducks (may have been some other fowl), so I had to take a picture.
As we were leaving a party of 11 Chinese people came in so that about sums it up. Okay, I can see how it use to be a KFC, but there's a place in San Bruno (Fat Wong's) that use to be a Taco Bell. Soon to come..... PF Chang's in an old Starbuck's.
Food is hot, fresh, tasty and very Chinese with chickens and ducks on hangers in all its glory.
BUT BUT BUT ..... ALL 5 STARS GO TO THE CHINESE HOT MUSTARD. I asked the owner/cashier what brand it was and he said, "we make it". A wedding bought us to SLC and this hot mustard will bring us back.
A hole-in-the-wall. This is my go-to place for Chinese food. The wait can be insane, but it's well worth it. It's pretty authentic Chinese food, and I would know - I'm from LA and I'm Chinese. Prices are pretty decent compared to what I'm used to having for their somewhat heafy portions.
My recommendation is to get to-go. Don't eat inside; the ghettoness might scare you. Plus it gets too crowded inside since they don't have a lot of seats.
I would NEVER have expected this place to have some of the best Chinese food in SLC, which is why I would've missed this tiny gem if it wasn't for 2 of my friends who recommended it. Don't let the exterior fool you. My personal faves are the hot and sour soup -- still my gold standard even after leaving SLC 4 years ago, and the house special pan fried noodles.
Pros:
- Authentic, fresh and cheap
Cons:
- Not for people who worship Rachel Ray, Martha Stewart, or any interior decorator.
This is a place I go to when I'm in SLC. Food is always tasty, maybe because of the extra favor explained at the end of the post. I tend to go for the pei pa tofu (has shrimp in it), deep fried prawns or some meat dish and a vegetable dish. Price is reasonable and easy to get find. STOP READING if you don't want to know about the extra favor. Anyway one day I was sitting in the front area waiting for my take out order and peered through all the hanging meats to the kitchen and saw the cook dishing up a platter of fried prawns and one fell to the floor. Anyway, it was within the five second rule, so you know here the prawn went. This was years ago, so maybe they don't do that anymore...
Terrible service, but the potstickers were good. I'ad had better chinese food and my husband didn't care for it at all. The place was packed though. Didn't think the prices were that great - $7 - $9 for an entree.
With the new booths, the place now looks 25% less scary (on the inside, at least). Yes, it very obviously used to be a converted KFC, and the blinds are always crooked, but come on in! Don't be frightened by the deep fried intestine on the menu; you don't have to order it! Don't order the Shrimp with Lobster Sauce (no place in the city seems to do it right, certainly not this place), but everything else is delicious. The wonton soup and Singapore rice noodles are easily the best in town.
This is great Chinese food. It reminds me of some of the places in Chinatown in SF (the good ones that the locals eat in not the overpriced tourist traps.) I have not been disappointed ever by the food at Little World. This is one of few places that my DW actually told ME about. I'm the foody in the family and she did a lunch with her friends at this place and told me about it. It's not much to look at but the food more than makes up for it.
This is a great hole-in-the-wall kind of place. I have trouble deciding between this place and Ho Ho down the street on certain nights but this place wins out on occasion. My best buddy and I had come here a few times and the one thing he said about this place that I remember is that, "It has a lot of soul". That it does. The food is delicious and cheap, the service is as good as it gets for a Mom-n-Pops Chinese place, and the diners are mostly ethnic(a very good sign in my book.).
When it comes to authentic Chinese food you'll not find any better in SLC. This small "hole in the wall" as Linda states will not disappoint your palette. The prices are reasonable and the portions may overwhelm the stomach. You know its good when you're the only one that can speak english, including the customers. No need to put the expensive threads on here. Yea, it is a dive, but you'll find none better between here and LA.
Is it fair to give them 4 stars based on one dish, the dish that I order again and again without fail because I can't bring myself to deviate from my norm? Little World's house special pan-fried noodles are my gold-standard. I fell for this dish when I first had it years ago at a Vietnamese/Chinese restaurant in Virginia but Little World is tops. I love how they set down a huge pile of thin egg noodles, topped with slices of silky chicken and beef, pieces of roasted pork, a sliver or two of fake crab, chinese cabbage, button mushrooms, carrots and snow peas in a not-too-thick sauce. The best part is where the egg noodles are still crisp from the frier and not touched by other ingredients. . .mmmm. Their baby bok choy is meltingly tender. The decor is less than minimal but the booths are comfy and have high backs. All the better for the other patrons who don't have to see me devour my house special.
